A less-than reputable science channel sends a team of scientists to the Marianas Trench to make a fake documentary about mermaids. It’s like Mira Grant’s Rolling in the Deep horror novel was written just for me (including my all-time favorite trope: wildly inaccurate descriptions of what research cruises are actually like).

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